Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone
By: Ian Tucker October 26, 2019 Samantha Hoffman is an analyst of Chinese security issues at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (Aspi). She recently published a paper entitled Engineering Global Consent: The Chinese Communist Party’s Data-Driven Power Expansion. Internet pioneers heralded a time when information would be set free, giving people everywhere unfiltered access to […]
The demographic trend that matters most is not what you think
By: Linkedin Oct 25, 2019 When most of our clients hear ‘demographics’ they think of aging populations in Japan and Europe, digital native millennials in the U.S., or the working-age population boom in Africa and South Asia. Rightly so. But what is overlooked is perhaps one of the most important demographic trends for investors: the […]
US SEC to propose regulations for proxy advisers
By: Patrick Temple-West October 25, 2019 The US Securities and Exchange Commission is set to propose new limits on shareholders’ ability to agitate for change at companies, handing a win to pro-business lobby groups. The SEC, led by chairman Jay Clayton, is expected to vote to propose rules that would require proxy adviser firms to give […]
FutureFest
By: Nesta October 25, 2019 FutureFest is back FutureFest is a celebration of our power to shape the future. The future is not something that happens to us, but something we can create. FutureFest offers audiences a space to push the boundaries, to connect with other thinkers and to find their own visions for what […]
Elephants Under Attack Have An Unlikely Ally: Artificial Intelligence
By: Dina Temple-Raston October 25, 2019 A few years ago, Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, published the results of something called the Great Elephant Census, which counted all the savanna elephants in Africa. What it found rocked the conservation world: In the seven years between 2007 and 2014, Africa’s savanna elephant population decreased by […]
The Future Means Business
By: Pgim Oct 24, 2019 PGIM India Asset Management is a wholly owned business of PGIM, the global investment management business of the US based Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI). With operations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America, PFI has provided customers with a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, […]
BlackRock’s Institutional Clients Moving to Private Capital
By: Bloomberg Oct 24, 2020 Almost half of BlackRock Inc.’s institutional clients plan to increase their allocation to private asset classes, said Mark Wiseman, the firm’s global head of active equities. “This is profound,” Wiseman said Thursday at the C4K Investors Conference in Toronto. “We’ve never seen numbers like this before.” Wiseman said the firm conducted […]
A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patients
By: Tom Simonite October 24, 2019 Care for some of the sickest Americans is decided in part by algorithm. New research shows that software guiding care for tens of millions of people systematically privileges white patients over black patients. Analysis of records from a major US hospital revealed that the algorithm used effectively let whites […]
Revised and strengthened UK Stewardship Code sets new world-leading benchmark
By: Financial Reporting Council October 24, 2019 The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today launched a substantial and ambitious revision to the UK Stewardship Code. The new Code substantially raises expectations for how money is invested on behalf of UK savers and pensioners. In particular, the new Code establishes a clear benchmark for stewardship as […]